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Smith had been invited by 27 Senators, led by conservative California Republican S.I. Hayakawa, who felt that he should have an opportunity to present his case to the U.S. public. The State Department had previously granted visas to Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. Nonetheless, State hesitated to give Smith an entry permit, on the ground that the U.S., which has honored the U.N. sanctions, considers his government illegal and has no diplomatic relations with it. After the delay raised editorial eyebrows and congressional hackles, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance ordered that Smith be given a visa...
...battlefield toll mounted, hopes for a negotiated transition to black majority rule dimmed. The secret contacts in Zambia through which Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had hoped to persuade Guerrilla Leader Joshua Nkomo to join the multiracial interim government collapsed last month, after Smith accused Nkomo's men of slaughtering ten defenseless survivors from a civilian passenger plane shot down by the guerrillas. Discouraged U.S. diplomats conceded that the massacre had also dealt an all but fatal blow to the joint British-American plan for a peaceful Rhodesian settlement. As Nkomo has recently warned, "The only way left...
This gloomy prospect arises because of ideological and tactical disputes between the two wings of the nationalist Patriotic Front-Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union and the Zimbabwe African National Union led by Marxist Robert Mugabe. As more of the Rhodesian countryside falls to the rebels, squabbling over territory could easily flare into fighting. Efforts by Nyerere and other front-line leaders to heal the breach have been to no avail. "We have been working to get them to build a single army, but we have failed,'' admitted Nyerere with a sigh. "What I fear...
Nyerere believes that this tragic black-against-black conflict-with a built-in potential for interference by outside powers-can be averted by reviving the Anglo-American peace plan. Mugabe and Nkomo have agreed to the proposal, but Smith has not. In essence, the plan calls for Britain to reassert its legal authority over its rebel colony-which unilaterally declared its independence in 1965-as a prelude to holding elections for a new Zimbabwean government. A U.N. peace-keeping force would guarantee a truce until the creation of a unified Zimbabwe army, composed of guerrillas and "acceptable elements...
...Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the Patriotic Front guerilla group that is waging an armed struggle against the Smith Government, have come to the United States several times, the senator added...